Beppo the Gorilla escapes from his cage and uses Minnie as Fay Wray in a King Kong imitation!

1952:

Actress Annie Potts - the voice of Bo Peep in the first two Toy Story

films and the voice of Syrinx in Disney's TV series Hercules - is born in Franklin,

Kentucky. (TV fans may remember her as Mary Jo on the hit series Designing Women from 1986-1993.)

1955:

Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Talent Round-Up Day.

1962:

The NBC-TV seriesWalt Disney's Wonderful World

of Color airs part 1 of "Sammy, the Way-Out Seal."

Directed by Norman Tokar, the film tells the story of two young brothers (played by Bill Mumy and Michael McGreevey) who secretly bring home a seal from their summer vacation and try to hide it from their Mom and Dad.

capacity audience at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Martin (who worked at Disneyland as a teen)

has turned serious intention to both playing and composing with his first full album of music, The Crow: New

Songs for the Five-String Banjo.

"My wife inspired the title for this next song - it's called 'When Are You Going to

Stop Playing the Damned Banjo?' " -Steve Martin

1949:

Tragedy strikes when Kay Kamen (the Disney

Studios' licensing representative for the last 17

years) and his wife are killed in an Air France plane crash over the Azores. All eleven

crew members and 37 passengers are killed aboard the Lockheed L-749 aircraft which was headed from Paris to

New York with an intermediate stop at Santa Maria Airport, Azores. (The Azores is a Portuguese group of islands

in the Atlantic Ocean, about 930 miles west from Lisbon and about 2,400 miles east from the east coast of North

America.) This ends one of Walt Disney's happiest collaborations. Because of Kamen, the studio's profits from

merchandise are currently at an all-time new high.

"I was driving down Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles...in my dad's grey Oldsmobile convertible with the top down when I

heard the news of the plane crash on the radio. I burst into tears. I knew well that Kay never flew anywhere because of his

fears and found the irony extremely cruel. It was a great personal loss

for our... family and for many others." -Diane Disney Miller

2010:

Actor James MacArthur, best known for his role of Danny "Danno" Williams on the original Hawaii Five-O television series, passes away at age 72 in Jacksonville, Florida. Adopted as an infant by playwright Charles MacArthur and actress Helen Hayes, he grew up in

Nyack, New York. During summer breaks from Harvard University, where he studied history, MacArthur

made The Light in the Forest and Third Man on the Mountain for Walt Disney. Deciding to make acting

his full-time career, he left Harvard in his sophomore year and appeared in two more Disney films,

Kidnapped and Swiss Family Robinson (which was followed by a 12-year run on Hawaii Five-O).

A 23-minute preview of Disney's TRON: Legacy is screened on many

IMAX theaters all over the world. (The film will open in December.)

1913:

Animator Don Lusk is born in Los Angeles, California. Starting as an inbetweener at Disney in 1933, he became an animator in 1938 on Ferdinand The Bull. He is best known for his work on the Fish Dance in "The Nutcracker Suite" segment of Fantasia, Cleo the goldfish in Pinocchio, the title character in Alice in Wonderland, and Wendy in Peter Pan. (After leaving Disney he worked as a freelance animator on such classics

as A Boy Named Charlie Brown, followed by a 23 year stint at Hanna-Barbera until his retirement in 1990.)

R.I.P.

Ima

Goner

R.I.P.

Yul B.

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1972:

Grammy Award-winning country singer-songwriter Brad Paisley is born in Glen

Dale, West Virginia. His song "Nobody's Fool" appears on the Cars 2 movie soundtrack. In 2012,

Paisley performed at DCA's grand opening of Cars Land and in Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade. (In

2003 he married actress Kimberly Williams; co-star of Touchstone Pictures Father of the Bride.)